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New modes abound in the latest entry in EA Sports’ soccer series.

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FIFA Soccer 11 Updated Hands-On

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It’s been a little over a month since members of the Fallen Earth dev team asked for snail mail from the players , and they’ve gotten their wish. Typed and handwritten, serious and funny, the letters came in from quite a few fans, and the developers of Fallen Earth have posted a few of the standouts . They’re definitely worth a look — the fill-in-the-blanks letter gets extra hilarity points — and the devs are certainly open to more.

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Fallen Earth developers want you to read their mail

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Filed under: Sci-fi , Events, real-world , Interviews , Rumors , Star Wars: The Old Republic E3 has been abuzz with the latest news about LucasArts’ and Bioware’s new MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic . Yesterday, they teased us with an exciting fully rendered trailer called “Hope.” The trailer showed a battle which is a precursor to one the players will be able to experience in game. Unfortunately, this trailer didn’t have many answers.

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Massively’s exclusive SWTOR interview: Starships, PvP, and crafting!

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Story is on the mind of a lot of developers these days, whether it’s the wunderkinds over at BioWare or veterans like Funcom’s Craig Morrison . Predictably, there are wildly differing viewpoints regarding implementation. You have BioWare trumpeting thousands of lines of (spoken) prose as leading to meaningful narrative gameplay, and then you have people who think that story in MMORPGs is a marketing gimmick unless it is created by the players.

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The Daily Grind: How would you like your story?

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Roleplaying is a finicky business. If organizing endgame raid groups is like herding cats, organizing coherent roleplaying is like herding cats with even more ego

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Storyboard: Best practices

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Major update to world of Atreia to lift level cap to 55, add new stigma skills, changes to flying mechanic; set for release in Q4 2010. MMORPG Aion’s 1.9 version update may not even be out yet (it’s due on June 2 this year), but its developers are already priming its strong international community of gamers for the major 2.0 update.

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Aion: Assault on Balaurea Q&A

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One of the best things any MMO developer can do is listen and respond to their players, particularly during beta testing. Perfect World Entertainment seems to be fully aware of that, as last night an email was sent out to everyone who participated in the first round of closed beta testing for Battle of the Immortals : “We’ve been collecting a ton of feedback from our players and last night, we delivered!” Beta testing in this case did exactly what it was supposed to: tracked down bugs and drew player feedback on what they did and did not like

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First round of Battle of the Immortals beta brings changes

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , News items , Free-to-play , Tales of Fantasy If you’re in the closed beta of Tales of Fantasy , you’ve got even more to look forward to when testing begins Wednesday. IGG has added four new instances, and there truly is something for everyone in these. The four instances are extremely diverse, catering to four of the main goals of many MMO players

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Tales of Fantasy expands closed beta with new instances

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We take a look at this upcoming action-adventure game going into GDC 2010. Get information on Magicka in our preview here, and watch an exclusive video demonstration of the game on Saturday’s episode of Today on the Spot . [ Watch Video ] Watch Magicka in motion in this gameplay video.

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Magicka Impressions – First Look

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With the constant influx of things being added to the game such as player housing , soccer , new pets , and most recently mounts , Free Realms has been going strong. Now, we’ve gotten word that in less than a month they’ve managed to attract another 1 million new players to sign up and check out the game — not too shabby! ” With Free Realms , we’ve been able to reflect the needs and wants of our players by keenly listening to their suggestions and feedback, ” said John Smedley , president of SOE .

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Free Realms reaches 9 million registered players

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